| Article ID: | iaor2004151 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Issue: | 8 |
| Start Page Number: | 781 |
| End Page Number: | 797 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2002 |
| Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
| Authors: | Cheng Kan, Lam Yeh |
| Keywords: | maintenance, repair & replacement, statistics: distributions |
In this paper, we study upper and lower bounds on the reliability in new better than used in expectation (NBUE) life distribution class with fixed first two moments. By a constructive proof, we determine the upper bounds on the reliability analytically in different regions and show that these bounds are sharp. For the lower bounds, similar results are obtained except in one region. For that region, a conjecture is given for further study.